Re: that old pango problem

["J. Ali Harlow" <ali juiblex co uk>]

On 17/07/05 13:48:21, john q public wrote:
> Trust me folks Ive tried googling and archive searching till I can't
> take any more. I even checked a bug tracker that claimed it was  
> "RESOLVED" thats fine but there was no patch and no suggestions, not  
> very helpful in the end so could someone please either find me a  
> cheap copy of XP on E-bay or help with this familiar thing:

You don't say which version of Gtk+ you're trying to build but I'm  
assuming it's the current stable version (2.6.8). If this is the case  
then it'd be much easier to use whatever package comes with your linux  
distribution.

> lots of configure stuff
>
>  --SNIP--
> checking X11/extensions/XShm.h... yes
> checking Pango flags... -I/usr/local/include/pango-1.0
> -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include/freetype2
> -I/usr/X11R6/include
> -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include
> -L/usr/local/lib -lpangoxft-1.0 -lpangox-1.0 -lpango-1.0 - 
> lgobject-2.0
>
> -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0
> configure: error:
> *** Can't link to Pango. Pango is required to build
> *** GTK+. For more information see http://www.pango.org
> -----END---

You need to look at config.log and see exactly _why_ configure failed  
to link to pango. Just saying that it did, tells us practically  
nothing. In contrast to you what you seem to believe there is no known  
bug that people often hit; there are just loads of ways that people can  
shoot themselves in the foot.

> this is after:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include
> --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib --enable-slow-dependency-tracking
> --with-gnu-ld -with-x --with-cairo
>
> which gets:
> configuration:
>         backends: FreeType X Xft
>
> make
> make install
>
> all seems fine but.....
> firstly if I go to /usr/pango
> Im greeted with ../1.4.0 this is after doing my best to install 1.8.1

I'm assuming you mean $prefix/lib/pango/1.4.0 - this is expected: 1.4.0  
is the ABI which pango version 1.8.1 (and many others) support.

What I don't understand is where /usr/pango came from. If the prefix is
/usr then there should be no such directory (or at least not from this  
build).

> Ive managed to "trick" a very old version of GTK2 to compile by
> setting the test for pango to TRUE but that doesn't seem quite proper  
> and besides programs will then promply complain about my use of a  
> backdated version of GTK2.
>
> I'm sure youv'e seen this before so try to be kind trust me Ive been
> very careful to avoid becoming flamebait but Im at my wits end with
> this. (I realize that might not be saying much but there you have it)
>
> extra stuff:
> lfs system (version 3.3)
> kernel 2.4.29
> gcc 2.95.3

I'd suggest gcc 3.x might be a better choice, but I doubt very much  
this has anything to do with your problems.

Hope this helps,

Ali.